The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-11
SMOKING MEN.
william j. Florence Gives an Account
Of Some of Them.
Fronl tAe Broollyn EaqIe.

I'm New \ Ork, Wnen Joseph Jefferson ana
william J. Florence knocked down the
house at such handsome figure for the
veteran Douldock's benefit, had the pleasure
If chatting with Mr. Florence and two or
three friends for half an hour. We talked
about Mr.. Florence's trip to Europe, on
which he was to sail, and did, the next day ::
and about former European trips of his and
his friends across the water and the diStin-
rnished people he had met there Then
Er Florence pulled a handful of cigars from
+ha inner consciousness of his raiment some
where and passed them around.
WThey're not locomotive cigars" said he
uthe sort it takes constant putting to keep
going, like a poor cigar"
The torch was duly applied around the cir
Gle. and he added:
II shall carry half dozen boxes of this
brand with me on the steamer. They say a
man who can smoke on shipboard is not apt
10 deliver up unto the sea that which is his
digestion. So | always start out bravely
With a lot of cigars. When I'm two or three
DAYS out forget all about them. A cigar
never has the same flavor for me at sea-
PERHAPS that proves Pm not much of ali old
salt for all good sallormen are hard smok-
ers ashore or afloat.h
SlDoes the rule apply to good actors
ashore. Mr. FlorenceW asked.
"Not to all good actors, perhaps" replied
the comedian; "but to good many of
them
Thatset the anecdote current going again,
and what Mr. Florence knew about great
smokers was evolved with the curling
wreaths of blue smoke.
"Henry Irving, to whom am going for
n long promised and longer put off visit"
said he ''s1nokes cigars, and great many
He knows a good cigar and never smokes
sny other. though he is equally fond of mild
or strong ones
Edwin Booth smokes pipe. In fact he
is an habitual pipe smoker. He often
smokes before breakfast, while dressing, and
is fond of mild Virginia mixture. His IA
yoritd pipe is thick bowled meerschaum,
which he has carried for years l used to
see him putting at that same pipe almost
constantly during the war.
"Poor old John Mccullough smoked lots
of cigars They were always mild ones,
but, with his nervous temperament, as it
proved in the end, they must have hurt him.
Frequently he would light a cigar before
rising from bed and finish it while dressing.
"Then there was Ned Sothern; he was a
terrific smoker. I've known him to burn
4 100 cigars week many time. He would
smoke one half down, toss it away and be-
gin another, repeating the operation rapidly
He always had cigar in his mouth, and his
rockets full. When he could think of moth
inc else he'd thrust a cigar at you. There
was time when Ned and | imported our
cigars at $500 per 1000 from Cuban plan
tation that is now exhausted.
"Salvini, the tragedian, is another great
cigar smoker. He consumes a dozen or SO
long black cigars that look like Wheeling
stogevs, but cost ten times as much, every
day. They are frightfully strong and each
4 has straw through it, the regular fashion
4 able cigar in Italy. There the smoker lights
Il his cigar on an iron frame over lamp, the
cigar resting a third of the way down into
the frame. That's to draw out the nicotine,
but never could quite get fond Of the idea.
4 Salvini has it down to an art.
"Boucicault is another accomplished
8 smoker He is an authority ON cigars, as
4 he is on all the good things of life. l have
smoked cigar of his that he had kept in an
air tight chest for over twelve years.
NAT Goodwin smokes and SO does John
4 Mackay. Mackay runs to high priced,
DC and SOC. apiece, and he sets fire to a
| good many. Harry Edwards is an inveterate
smoker of strong cigars. Sheridan Shook
4 is another great user of the rolled weed.
j Frank Mayo enjoys medium cigars, and
Il Barrett, our Barrett, is fond of mild cigar.
81 Crane smokes and so does Robson. The
81 venerable Couldock takes pipe.
Poor old John E. Owens used to like
q cigars. Barney McAuley smoked, too. Our
lamented friend, Raymond, never touched
tobacco in any form. Neither did poor
n Barley Campbell, at least he didn't
smoke. "
DO many actors smoke cigarettes?"
mo, think not; that is, not many good
actors. We started to speak of them, be-
q lieven
what has been your observation of the
smoking habit abroad?
4 well, there the cigarette has more
friends; not with theatrical people, particu-
larly, but with good many well known
men, For instance, the Prince of Wales, who
uses plenty of mild cigars, generally begins
after dinner with cigarette and then adj
Vances to the stronger weed. Lord Mande-
vile is confirmed cigaratte smoker. He
lnlaeS as many as five packages a day at
times. The Duke of Manchester smokes
cigarettes before his cigars, like the Prince
OF Wales Harrington, the Liberal leader,
smokes good cigars like house afire. Lord
Aylesford was great smoker, too.
A visitor to Tennyson is pretty apt to
md the laureate strolling in his grounds,
with short briarwood pipe in his mouth,
MS head down and his hands clasped behind
his back
Il have heard that Gladstone smokes a
PIPE When last saw the Grand Old Man
al Hawarden, however, l did not see him
use tobacco at all
haO pIOiulHeuU PUBIC men IN UnlS
country do you know that smoker
On, hundreds. l have known every
PRESIDENT of the United States, except Gar
ned, since the administration of Pierce, and
ney all smoked cigars, I believe. Pretty
nearly all politicians smoke. Henry Wat
@rSon smokes his cigars so short they SINCE
us handsome moustache. Tom Ochiltree
smokeS like Pittsburg blast furnace, but
never any bad cigars. Sunset Cox smokes
lsarS Most newspaper editors smoke in
Ileir Offices, think, and nearly always
pipes. James Gordon Bennett smokes
SlgarS and cigarettes, and good many. Of
BY this time the cigars which Mr. Flor
elce mad declared We're not the "lQeRh1s
ave" brand had been pretty well teste1 and
f The actor threw the end of his oWxIU1od
ulto cuspidore, he said: aae0in al
!, How did you like them? Not b41f 4
nought you'd say So That's c6iora1o
Saro Havana, and it wasn't grown. in Con
necqcut, either. l like a colorado DR. & icoi-
% STlo claro best for my own snioking
W men smoke pipe, and I'm fond 6f one
Do, md nothing so nice as a mix1urA)lof
Two Two parts Virginia and one part per1que
GRANTS GRAD6bdAT,s sttS'E
4, ------1aN MR. f4z1f1y ~
Mark Twain's Inimitablo Answer to
Matthew Arnold'B CRITICISM
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